With their Derby victory, Bayer Leverkusen now leads the Bundesliga by eleven points.
Bayer Leverkusen fixed their grasp at the highest point of the Bundesliga with a 2-0 triumph north of 10-man Cologne to pull 10 points clear of Bayern Munich.
Bayer Leverkusen fixed their grasp at the highest point of the Bundesliga with a 2-0 triumph over 10-man Cologne to pull 10 points clear of Bayern Munich. Xabi Alonso’s side was given the valuable chance to extend their lead over Bayern after the sequential heroes floundered once more, just dealing with a 2-2 draw at Freiburg on Friday night. “Ten focuses are a great deal,” said Leverkusen’s Swiss midfielder, Granit Xhaka. “In any case, it’s not finished at this point. As of yet, there are a lot more focuses to play for, and for however long it’s not chosen numerically, we can’t say that it’s finished. We need to continue to work and get a couple of additional focuses collectively.”
Leverkusen, who are on a German record-breaking 34 games unbeaten in all contests, made the brief excursion to Cologne.
They ran out merited champions of a scrappy Rhine derby, regardless of a lively exertion by the Bundesliga strugglers, who played with 10 men from the fifteenth moment.
The game’s opener was made in the 38th minute by Alejandro Grimaldo. His low cross from the left was flicked on by Patrik Schick and cut in from short proximity by Jeremie Frimpong, for his eighth association objective of the time.
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Grimaldo secured the focus in the 73rd minute, pressing the ball in close to the post after fine work by influence substitute Amine Adli.
Forward Jan Thielmann was shown a straight red in the fifteenth moment subsequent to raking his studs down Xhaka’s Achilles.
That choice raised the temperature inside the RheinEnergieStadion, with ref Tobias Stieler confronted with a Cologne group and 40,000 home fans in defiant mind-set in the late-winter daylight.
“The primary half was altogether too close to home with the red card,” Alonso said. “We controlled the counter-assaults and were unfortunate not to get the objectives. Eventually, we had tolerance and got the objectives.”
Cologne, who involve the transfer play-off place and stay eight focuses uncontrolled of security, changed well after the red card and were unfortunate to two times raise a ruckus around town.
However, Leverkusen controlled enormous amounts of the challenge as they moved toward their very first Bundesliga title with 10 games left to play.
In Sunday’s other Bundesliga game, a first-half twofold from Maximilian Beier was enough for Hoffenheim to get a 2-1 win over Werder Bremen.
